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Michelle Natividad Rodriguez and Beth Avery, National Employment Law Project
(April 2016)The report's authors recommend a comprehensive overhaul of licensing laws to incorporate standards that promote greater transparency and accountability—ultimately producing fairer, more consistently applied licensing laws. The authors provide a Model State Law in the Appendix, which incorporates their Recommendations. In addition, they have analyzed the general licensing laws of ... -
National Employment Law Project
(April 2016)According to this report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), nearly one in three U.S. adults has a record in the criminal justice system. While uncommon, the report's authors state that the resulting stigma and its lifelong consequences prove devastating for many. The report discusses the more than one-quarter of ... -
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(April 2016)According to this guidance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of General Counsel, when individuals are released from prisons and jails, their ability to access safe, secure and affordable housing is critical to their successful reentry to society. However, many formerly incarcerated individuals, as well as ... -
Alliance for a Just Society
(March 2016)While most people over the age of 18 in the United States are guaranteed the right to vote, those with felony convictions who have served their sentence face a variety of barriers to voting, including, in many states, the requirement that they pay any outstanding fines and fees owed to ... -
Juvenile Law Center
(February 2016)The report reveals that every year, 1.5 million youth are arrested across the country. The moment each of these children comes into contact with the police, a record is created. As the report discusses, these records are not confidential and they do not disappear when the young person’s case is ... -
Heather Garretson, 25 Public Interest Law Journal
(February 2016)According to the article's author, states have recently started addressing the employment paradox with legislation. This legislation authorizes an administrative relief mechanism – often a certificate of some kind – that is intended to lift employment barriers and encourage employers to consider applicants with a criminal record. New York State ... -
Alliance for a Just Society
(February 2016)In many states and cities, both public and private employers can include a question on application materials requiring applicants to disclose whether or not they have a conviction record. While there is growing momentum to “Ban the Box,” in most cases these efforts only ban the box for public employment. Additionally, there ... -
Joann Sahl, 100 Marquette Law Review 2
(January 2016)The article reveals that, (at the time of publishing) domestic violence is the most common tort committed in our country, involving nearly 1.3 million victims. The author argues that, when a domestic violence incident occurs, the press regularly reports it and highlighted in these articles is the name of the ...